Frozen Cake

The birthday girl's mummy specially bought a Funko Pop Elsa figurine to put on top of this cake for Joyia. The Funko Pop toy series is really cute. Definitely a twist on the traditional cartoon characters. 

Funko Pop Elsa Frozen birthday cake

The cake is three layers of vanilla butter cake, filled with vanilla bean German buttercream and frosted with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. I dyed the cake layers teal and purple, to go with the Frozen theme. 

purple & teal cake layers

I'm still working on getting a smooth finish on the surface of my buttercream cakes. It's challenging! I've gotten the motion of using a scraper and turning the cake turn table in one complete motion, but sometimes I don't put enough buttercream on the surface and the coating is uneven. 

challenging to smoothen out buttercream

Sometimes I don't work the air out enough and there are tiny air bubbles (like in the pic above. curse the yellow lighting in my kitchen) But the most challenging is to get the top smooth. Still haven't figured out how to do that. 

After smoothing out the cake as best as I could, I added some icicles around the top part of the cake, and a ruffled bottom edge using piping tip no. 104. I cut out some fondant snowflakes and placed them around the cake for a Frozen feel. 

fondant snowflakes

I tried to dye the fondant for the birthday girl's name in the same shade as the buttercream on the cake. I got it pretty close, but it's pretty hard to dye things the exact same colour. I also made a fondant no. 4 in the same shade of teal, topped with a little snowflake. I left it up to the birthday girl's mummy to arrange the figurines on the cake. She told me that Funko Pop Elsa has a big head and that it actually toppled over backwards! But she managed to get it all balanced in the end. Good job, mummy. :)

Happy 4th Birthday, Joyia!